spinney

[ spin-ee ]

/ ˈspɪn i /

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noun, plural spin·neys.British.

a small wood or thicket.

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Origin of spinney

1300–50; Middle English <Middle French espinei (masculine), espinaie (feminine) a place full of thorns, derivative of espinespine; compare Late Latin spīnētum difficulty, equivalent to Latin spīn(a) thorn (see spine) + -ētum noun suffix (see arboretum)

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spinnaker, spinnbarkeit, spinner, spinneret, spinnery, spinney, spinning, spinning box, spinning frame, spinning jenny, spinning mule

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How to use spinney in a sentence

Do you remember long ago at the gate over there leading to Drake's Spinney?
Dross|Henry Seton Merriman
On the one side the hedge was high, but on the other there was a slight gap leading into a thick spinney.
Animal Ghosts|Elliott O'Donnell
"Spinney is not such a bad fellow at bottom," I replied, albeit touched by the warm partisanship of my wife.
The Opinions of a Philosopher|Robert Grant
I made this discovery in a spinney, or copse, near a small tarn some half mile to the eastward of Fernbridge's precincts.
Fibble, D. D.|Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

Pickersdyke halted his little command behind the remains of a spinney and went forward to reconnoitre.
Servants of the Guns|Jeffery E. Jeffery

British Dictionary definitions for spinney

spinney

/ (ˈspɪnɪ) /

noun

mainly British a small wood or copse

Word Origin for spinney

C16: from Old French espinei, from espine thorn, from Latin spīna

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